When he got that egg from his immigrant cousin he thought was an ostrich egg, he took pity on him and slipped it into the nest of the turkey that had just started to hatch. She thought it was a bit big, but being a great mother, she said she'd take him in. Well, and the chick came out of the henhouse, later than the others, but it grew by sight, more in beak and claws. Ugly bird, look, it has not even wings. Where did you say your cousin went? New Zealand. Aha. Look, here, on the misfortune, what a hatchling, a Romanian kiwi.
(Translated by Alina-Dorina Nicolae / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In June 2023, the group has 11,430 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, Luchian Abel, and Vlad Mușat. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
